Uglješa Mrdić

A member of the National Assembly since 2020, he chairs its Committee on the Judiciary, Public Administration and Local Self-Government and sponsored the judicial amendments of 2026 known as "Mrdić's laws". He was 30th on the list Aleksandar Vučić – United Serbia, which came second in the Serbian parliamentary election of 25 October 2026.

Career

Born in Trebinje, Mrdić went to school in Belgrade and worked as a journalist from 1997, writing for papers such as Politika Ekspres and Glas javnosti and serving as assistant editor-in-chief of the weekly Pečat; he was also a judo coach and vice-president of Red Star's judo club. He completed a law degree in Novi Sad in 2011 and went on to master's and doctoral studies. N1, citing Istinomer, reports that he advised the justice minister from 2012 to 2020. In the SNS since its founding, he has sat on its main board and presidency and headed its anti-corruption council. He has been a Vračar municipal councillor in Belgrade since 2016, leading the SNS group, and was elected to the National Assembly in 2020, 2022 and 2023.

Positions

Mrdić calls his judicial bills the first step to returning a "hijacked" judiciary to the state and people of Serbia. From 31 October to 10 November 2025 he held a hunger strike outside the National Assembly, demanding the arrest of two former Serbian Railways Infrastructure executives, Nebojša Bojović and Milutin Milošević, whom he holds responsible for the Novi Sad canopy collapse; he ended it after President Vučić asked him to. In December 2025 he filed five bills, saying that "parts of the prosecution and judiciary have broken away from the state" and that Supreme Public Prosecutor Zagorka Dolovac and organised-crime prosecutor Mladen Nenadić behaved like party leaders and took decisions with power centres abroad. The bills placed the high-tech crime prosecutors under Belgrade's Higher Public Prosecutor's Office, changed the rules for seconding prosecutors and split a Belgrade court ahead of Expo 2027; the Assembly adopted them on 28 January 2026. He said they would strengthen judicial independence and denied wanting to abolish the Prosecutor's Office for Organised Crime (TOK).

Controversies

The opposition and legal experts said the laws aimed to put the judiciary under government control; the TOK warned of a blockade of its most complex cases, a human-rights lawyer said cases against SNS officials would be slowed, experts said more than half of the TOK's prosecutors would lose their posts, and a judiciary union called a strike. EU enlargement commissioner Marta Kos called the vote a serious step back on Serbia's EU path. In April 2026 the Venice Commission found that the changes threatened earlier guarantees of prosecutorial autonomy and judicial independence and recommended corrections. The government drafted amendments in a working group that included Mrdić, and the Assembly passed them on 25 June 2026; Mrdić said the laws had been improved, not withdrawn, while the Commission said seven of its nine recommendations had been taken up.

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